U2's Basquiat art to sell for £6 million

A Jean-Michel Basquiat painting owned by U2 could sell for £6 million at auction, reports the Press Association.

The piece, titled Pecho/Oreja, will go under the hammer at Sotheby's with a guide price of £4-3 million.

U2 purchased the painting in 1989 after bass player Adam Clayton spotted it at New York's Robert Miller Gallery. It currently resides at the group's Dublin recording studio.

Oliver Barker of Sotheby's said: "It seems especially appropriate that a work by Basquiat should end up at a music studio, since so much has been said about the relationship between his art and music."

Basquiat, a renowned Neo-expressionist artist, died in 1988 from a suspected drug overdose.